Rei Momo

Rei Momo
Studio album by David Byrne
Released	3 October 1989
Genre	Latin music, worldbeat
Length	63:37
Label	Luaka Bop, Sire
Producer	David Byrne, Steve Lillywhite
David Byrne chronology
The Last Emperor (1987) Rei Momo (1989) The Forest (1991)
Singles from Rei Momo
"Loco De Amor" Released: 1987 "Make Believe Mambo" Released: 1989 "Dirty Old Town" Released: 1989 (US and Spain) "Independence Day" Released: 1990 (Europe and Spain)

Rei Momo is the debut solo album by David Byrne and second overall studio album (after the 1981 collaborative album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts), released on 3 October 1989. The album consists of diverse Latin music styles from Cuba (rumba, mozambique, mambo, chachachá, bolero), the Dominican Republic (merengue), Puerto Rico (bomba), Colombia (cumbia, mapeyé) and Brazil (samba, pagode).^[1] The album is mostly sung in English and features guest appearances by Kirsty MacColl, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, among others.